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Note: This was updated for compatibility with WooCommerce 3.0+. This will cause fatal errors if used with older versions of WooCommerce.

I was digging around in WooCommerce while trying to come up with a quote for a client. Part of the scope had me wondering if you could remove some fields from the checkout process. If you aren’t selling physical products a billing address can be too much information and could even be off-putting to potential customers.

I eventually tracked the fields down from the checkout template, to the checkout class to the get_address_fields() method in the WC_Countries class.

Removing Billing Address

Like a lot of things in WooCommerce you can modify values via filter. To remove all the physical address fields from the billing address here is the code I used:

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// Remove some checkout billing fields

functionkia_filter_billing_fields($fields){

unset($fields["billing_country"]);

unset($fields["billing_company"]);

unset($fields["billing_address_1"]);

unset($fields["billing_address_2"]);

unset($fields["billing_city"]);

unset($fields["billing_state"]);

unset($fields["billing_postcode"]);

unset($fields["billing_phone"]);

return$fields;

}

add_filter('woocommerce_billing_fields','kia_filter_billing_fields');

Yes this could go in functions.php but that kind of locks you into a specific theme. If this is a permanent change then you probably want to create a site-specific plugin and put it in the wp-content/mu-plugins/ folder.

Add a Custom Checkout Field

While I was fooling around I figured I would see if I could add a custom checkout field. Turns out this is a bit more complex, but ultimately do-able. The following code will add the field to the checkout page, save the data to order meta and display the order meta in the orders admin.

Update: After receiving multiple contacts about adding more than one field I have modified the sample code to add 2 fields.

Alternatively, display extra data as editable data (and save)

This should function like the shipping and billing address data and reveal inputs when the little pencil icon is clicked. Make sure to delete the previous function as two functions with the same name will cause a PHP error.

The release of WordPress 3.9 saw the update of the included TinyMCE editor to version of 4.0 and this caused no small amount of havoc for people who’d been customizing the text editor. In the past, one was able to define one’s own custom styles and modify the block formats like so:

You’re a Real Button Now

But surprise! With the update this doesn’t work any more. Digging into the TinyMCE scripts, the formats appear to now be a custom tinyMCE button. You can see that the formatselect button is added to mce_buttons_2; in the class-wp-editor.php;. And then I tracked that to tinymce.js :

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editor.addButton('formatselect',function(){

varitems=[],blocks=createFormats(editor.settings.block_formats||

'Paragraph=p;'+

'Address=address;'+

'Pre=pre;'+

'Heading 1=h1;'+

'Heading 2=h2;'+

'Heading 3=h3;'+

'Heading 4=h4;'+

'Heading 5=h5;'+

'Heading 6=h6'

);

With that in mind, it appears that to modify the block formats, we’ll need to change the editor.settings.block_formats. And theme_advanced_syles; has now become style_formats; in the TinyMCE init object.

Small caveat: I’m not sure where to add the styles for the drop-down items themselves. In the TinyMCE sample, the “Red Headline“ option is red. I couldn’t figure this out. If you do please let me know in the comments!

In the summer of 2012, I was visiting one of my best friends in New Orleans… cooking lots of tacos and mixing lots of margaritas. While there, one of my earliest clients contacted me and wanted to be able to sell his books for whatever the customer was willing to pay. Did I know a way to do that with WooCommerce he asked? Well no, but I’m only working on my taco recipes at the moment so maybe I can look into it?

I started to poke around and ask some questions at Github and someone else contacted me to tell me that he’d buy this right away if it existed. I took these two people as the least-scientific version of “Idea Validation” imaginable and decided to give this thing a whirl.

About a month later I had a working prototype up and for sale at WooThemes. It only worked on simple products and then with a little more effort on subscriptions. I was pretty content to leave it at that, but one request kept coming back… can this work with variable products?

For a long time the answer was no, or maybe, or I’m working on it, but mostly no. You see, I’m also a semi-professional athlete so I am not a full-time coder… and variable products are complicated! But after an extremely long “beta” process I am pumped to announce that Name Your Price 2.0 now supports variable products! You can pick and choose which variations will be Name Your Price enabled, so you can all customers to set a price on all a product’s variations or just one. This feature does require WooCommerce 2.1 or greater. Version 2.0 was a pretty major overhaul, so be careful if you were overriding any templates. There’s some documentation coming on that.

Finally, Name Your Price for variable products

So if this was holding you back from purchasing Name Your Price, head over to Woothemes and pick up your copy!

Important: Support requests are not handled in the comments and must go through WooThemes.

This plugin has been out in the wild for some time now and it seemed appropriate to give it a post on my blog. Once upon a time I was working on a magazine site with a lot of authors and my client wanted to display all the authors in a cool way. Every other plugin I found was too rigid in its output, either markup or CSS or both. I needed to be able to customize and style this list to fit my theme. And while the original site I working on is now defunct, Simple User Listing lives on.

Basic Usage

Once you’ve installed and activated the plugin you only have to add the shortcode to any page (or post) where you’d like to display a full list of all your blog’s users. By default the plugin will display all of the blog’s users and ‘paginate’ the list based on the “Posts per Page” setting.

[userlist]

A directory list of users ready for your own custom styles

Custom Templates

I created this plugin to use templates that can be overridden and customized by theme developers. There are 4 templates in the plugin’s templates folder: content-author.php, navigation-author.php, none-author.php and search-author.php. The templates should be relatively self-explanatory and I suspect most of the customizations will happen in content-author.php which is responsible for how each user in the user loop is displayed.

To modify a template simply copy the template file from the simple-user-listing/templates folder of the plugin and paste it into a simple-user-listing folder in the root of your theme (so my-theme/simple-user-listing). Now you can change the markup any way you please and the plugin will know to use your template instead of the default.

It will be similar to template parts for post loops, except you will have access to each user’s $user object instead of the $post object. For more details on what is available in the $user object see the Codex reference on WP_User()

Custom Lists

Simple User Listing relies on the WP_Query class and supports almost all of WP_Query’s parameters. Here’s a full list of all parameters:

To use any WP_Query parameter merely add it to the shortcode. For example:

List of Authors

[userlist role="author"]

List of Specific Users

[userlist include="1,2,3,4"]

Order Users by Last Name

As of version 1.5.2 meta query parameters were rolled into the core of the plugin…. well single meta queries anyway. You can sort by any any meta key (much like querying posts).

[userlist meta_key="last_name" orderby="meta_value" order="ASC"]

WP-Pagenavi Bonus

Simple User Listings works with WP-Pagenavi out of the box. Simply activate WP-Pagenavi and your user lists will be paginated with numbers instead of the default previous/next links.

Search by Display Name

By default the search relies on username, but we can change this with some trickery via the pre_user_query hook. Similar to pre_get_posts this is your last chance to change the WP_User_Query query before it is executed. I’ve built in a query_id variable so that you don’t go willy-nilly filtering all user queries which could have some unintended side effects.

Search by User Meta

And finally, I’ll try to walk you through setting up a custom search.

First we’ll create a new search-author.php template in our theme’s simple-user-listing folder. This template will have a pair of radio buttons that will allow the user to decide between traditional search and searching by a meta field…. in this case “city”, but it really could be whatever you want.

You don’t have to change your search template, but I thought it might be nice.

Next we’ll register a query variable. This belongs in your theme’s functions.php or better still a site-specific mu-plugin, so that it isn’t tied to you theme. Remember that themes are for presentation. Plugins are for manipulating data in ways that should persist through theme changes.

Technically if you don’t change the search template you don’t need to do this either, but I’m going whole-hog here. Did someone say Bacon?

And finally, we need to adjust the Simple User Listing args before they are sent to WP_Query.

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// Switch the WP_User_Query args to a meta search if "by company" is selected function

functionkia_meta_search($args){

$method=(get_query_var('method')=='company')?'company':'name';

$search=(isset($_GET['as']))?sanitize_text_field($_GET['as']):false;

// if set to search by company switch to a meta query

if($search&amp;&amp;$method=='company'){

$args['search']='';//kill default search

$args['query_id']='simple_user_listing_meta';

$args['meta_key']='company_name';

$args['meta_value']=$search;

$args['meta_compare']='LIKE';

}

return$args;

}

add_filter('sul_user_query_args','kia_meta_search');

Support

That should do it. This plugin isn’t in particularly ‘active’ development. Essentially meaning that I’m not looking to add features. However, if it breaks somewhere do let me know.

I apologize in advance but I can’t help you with your custom implementations via the comments or WordPress support forums. I am open to contract work though. Please contact me if you’d like to hire me.

Let me know where you are using my plugin. I’d love to see how you are styling it!

I found I constantly needed a way for clients to mark a post as something they wanted to feature and I’ve never found sticky posts particularly intuitive. In fact, the sticky post UI is about the least obvious thing possible for a WordPress newbie. The simplest solution was a checkbox in prominently located metabox.

View of the metabox in the post edit screen.

So I packaged up a quick metabox, with some good quick edit support. The plugin, by itself, will not change how the posts are displayed. It just gives the UI to users and a meta key to theme developers to query for, though I am not 100% convinced that meta is the best way to go here. I have at times used a taxonomy for grouping featured posts, though this plugin is currently configured for post meta.

Simply click on the star to “feature” a post

You can decide which post types should support this metabox directly from the plugin options. But of course, the best part of this plugin is that shortly after submitting it to the WordPress repo, I realized someone else had already built something practically identical! #Doh! Sometimes that happens, but it was a good exercise nonetheless. If you need a way to mark posts as featured, then grab it from the repo: